Father Quotes

Oh, Mrs. Churchill, do come over, someone has killed father.

My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.

When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.

My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement.

If they had killed by father and my mother and all my friends, yet if they had come to treat of peace, they ought to have gone in peace.

I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.

My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you.

The activity of being a husband, a father - those are roles, too, but underneath them is the spiritual center that connects us all, and that's what's most important.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

You women will live as if father is still alive and in the next room.

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.

I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

My father told me, never have partners.

My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.

When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.

My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.

I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.

I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.

I'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was.